PHOTOS: BELL SINCE '68 | Bell Helicopter opened its facilities here in 1968 at the old Amarillo air base, initially a repair center for helicopters damaged in the Vietnam War. Now the company is poised to sell its trademark V-22 Ospreys to foreign customers and build a new Osprey for the Navy.

■ Early February 1968: Bell Helicopter announces it will locate a repair-modification plant in Amarillo. ■ Feb. 26, 1968: The first helicopter from the Vietnam War arrives in Amarillo via truck to Bell's hangars at Amarillo Air Force Base.

When another crew member from “Texas” left the show a couple of weeks ago, Peyton Trueblood confided to her boss that she was feeling a little homesick herself.
“But I sure love my family out here,” she told Kris Miller.
Trueblood, 21, was killed Friday in a fireworks explosion at Pioneer Amphitheatre in Palo Duro Canyon State Park as she was checking inventory before the night’s performance began.

Paternity test results show an Amarillo Goodwill Industries employee accused of raping and impregnating a mentally handicapped co-worker is the father of her baby, according to documents from her attorney.

The Amarillo Venom and the Amarillo community lost a teammate and a friend Sunday when Rodney Ray "Biscuit" Evans Jr. died in a one-vehicle crash on his way home from his job at the KBR plant in Borger.
Evans, 31, who was raised in Amory, Miss.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Air safety investigators have a "high degree of confidence" that aircraft debris found in the Indian Ocean is of a wing component unique to the Boeing 777, the same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared last year, a U.S. official said Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Air safety investigators have a "high degree of confidence" that aircraft debris found in the Indian Ocean is of a wing component unique to the Boeing 777, the same model as the Malaysia Airlines plane that disappeared last year, a U.S. official said Wednesday.

VIDEO | After four days of hosting various projects at Arrow Child & Family Ministries, 14 students from a local church discovered the importance of helping others through Go Here Week, which ended Wednesday afternoon.

The city of Amarillo is turning on the pumps to try to relieve flooding from Playa No. 7 on the edge of The Greenways subdivision in southwest Amarillo.
"There are two pumps. One is a booster," said Assistant City Manager Bob Cowell.

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (AP) — A prison worker who was "in over her head" with two inmates convicted of murder tearfully pleaded guilty Tuesday to helping them escape asnew details emerged of her relationship with the men that included performing a sex act and sending naked photos.

TAHOKA - Daron Norwood's life, faith and music should be celebrated, friends and relatives of the late country singer said at a memorial service.
The Rev. Jewel Armstead is an associate pastor of Lubbock's Greater St.

Amarillo Police Department Crime Stoppers has highlighted Brandon Markette Stewart, 33, as its fugitive of the week.
Stewart is wanted on a bond surrender warrant, issued in Potter County, for dangerous drugs as well as for deadly conduct.

One of two men injured in a shooting Saturday in the City View neighborhood in south Amarillo is disputing a police-issued news release that alleges the pair tried to break into a home.
"The story about the home invasion is completely inaccurate.

A crash at 9 a.m. Monday on Soncy Road just south of the Interstate 40 intersection shook up the passengers but resulted in no injuries, Amarillo police said.
The two-car accident involved a Chevrolet Venture minivan and a 2015 GMC Denali pickup.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Insisting that Americans deserve better, President Barack Obama chided Republicans Mike Huckabee, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz on Monday for a series of campaign-trail attacks that he said would be "ridiculous if it weren't so sad."

Who yelled, “Everybody into the pool?” After all the candidate announcements, after all the speculation about who’d go first and who’s yet to jump in, one question remains in this summer before the election year: Why are so many Republicans running for president?

None of the three rapes reported last school year at West Texas A&M University have led to sexual assault charges, although three students connected to the incidents have been suspended, according to the university.

DASHCAM VIDEO | Officers named in an excessive force complaint related to the arrest of Robert Johnson in March have been exonerated, Amarillo Police Department Chief Robert Taylor said during a news conference Thursday.